Pedro Bravo de Acuna

Pedro Bravo de Acuna (died 24 June 1606) was Governor of the Philippines from May 1602 to 24 June 1606, succeeding Francisco de Tello de Guzman and preceding Cristobal Tellez de Almanza.

Biography
Pedro Bravo de Acuna served in the Spanish Navy at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto before joining the Knights of St. John, and he commanded a force of Spanish galleons against England's Royal Navy during its raid on Cadiz in 1587. He became Governor of Cartagena de las Indias in the Caribbean in 1593. In 1601, he was appointed Governor of the Philippines, and he opposed a trade agreement with the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, as he did not want to share Spanish goods with a major regional enemy of the Spanish Empire. The also had to deal with raids from Mindanao and wars with the Sultanate of Sulu; in October 1603, he had to fight against Chinese rebels during the "Sangley Rebellion". After two expeditions to the Moluccas and a Japanese insurrection, Bravo de Acuna died in Manila.